Category:Economics
* See also for more detailed introductory material: Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Economics
Economics is a vast field, (see e.g. Wikipedia: Economics) that has been based on premises that are no longer compatible with the very survival of the planet. The P2P Foundation therefore aims for a re-foundation of economics on different axioms, which we call Commons Economics;
See also below our list of related subdomains that are of particular interest to us and which represent alternatives to mainstream economics.
This category therefore, is for our general material on economics.
Key Quote
Tim Jackson: (2016)
"I have come to believe that building an economy that works is a precise, definable, pragmatic and meaningful task. Enterprise as service, work as participation, investment as a commitment to the future and money as a social good: these four principles provide the foundations for a profound and much-needed transformation of society." [1]
Key Concepts of This Category
Wikipedia suggests that Economics is "the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services." It is centered around the basic concept of scarcity, and the market opportunities that such scarcity creates, and hardly takes into account what it considers as 'externalities', i.e. our planet and the other living beings on which we depend.
The P2P Foundation proposes an alternative economics that is centered around the institution of the Commons, systematically looks for natural and renewable Abundance, and seeks to develop win-win protocols supported by a generative market function and enabling institutions for the common good (the Partner State). We call this process of tranformation, the Commons Transition. Articles in this wiki therefore tend to view established economic theory through the critical perspective of Commons and P2P. We see economic practices not as static but as evolving over time, see Kojin Karatani's work on the Evolution of the Modes of Exchange . In particular, we seen an evolution from the mere view of active consumer, i.e. the Prosumer, to the active Produser, who both produces and uses. I.e. what we call 'commoners' or 'peer producers'.
Useful learning resources
Introductory
- Commons as a Challenge for Classical Economics (International Commons Conference, 2010)
- Radical Implications of a Zero Growth Economy (Ted Trainer, 2011)
- Scope not Scale (Michel Bauwens, 2012)
Deeper Study
- Counter-Economics
- The Political Economy of Peer Production (2005)
- Five Framing Conditions for a Commons-Oriented Economy (2012)
- Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy (2012)
P2P Foundation Material
- Report: Value in the Commons Economy: Developments in Open and Contributory Value Accounting. By Michel Bauwens and Vasilis Niaros. Heinrich Boll Foundation, 2016. [2]
- The Thermodynamic Efficiencies of Peer Production: research project of the P2P Foundation, in collaboration and under the leadership of the Blaqswan's Collective and others. See the report: PEER TO PEER AND THE COMMONS: A MATTER, ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVE. By Xavier Rizos and Celine Piques. [3]
- P2P Accounting for Planetary Survival: Towards a P2P Infrastructure for a Socially Just Circular Society. By Michel Bauwens and Alex Pazaitis. Foreword by Kate Raworth. P2P Foundation, June 2019. [4]
Related Categories
(See also below for our sub-categories)
- Our Category: Business is more oriented towards micro-economics.
- Our Category: Sharing gives another perspective from outside mainstream economics.
- Category: ECC2013 Participants included many economists.
- Economics is related to other categories via the Category: Commons Economics
- The Category: Regenerative Approaches is wider, but includes regenerative economics.
Subcategories
This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
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Pages in category "Economics"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 1,443 total.
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- E.F. Schumacher and the Metaphysical Reconstruction of Economics According to Catholic Social Teaching
- E.F. Schumacher on the Metaphysical and Theological Roots of Decentralist Economics
- Earth Community Economy
- Eben Moglen on the Commons As An Actor in Transforming Global Political Economy
- ECC2013
- Ecodevelopment Indicators
- Ecological Aspects of Surplus in Production
- Ecological Boundaries of the Information Age
- Ecological Economics
- Ecological Economics from the Bottom-Up
- Ecological Footprint
- Ecologically Unequal Exchange Theory
- Ecommony
- Econ4
- Econocene
- Economic and Human Flourishing In Historical Perspective
- Economic Calculation Problem
- Economic Complexity Index
- Economic Depression
- Economic Elite Vs. The People of the United States of America
- Economic Growth
- Economic History of Nature
- Economic Network
- Economic Policies for Steady-State Solutions
- Economics
- Economics After Capitalism
- Economics Anti-Textbook
- Economics as a Science of Infrastructure
- Economics as Spirituality
- Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science
- Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth
- Economics for Humans
- Economics in a DRM-Free World
- Economics of a Self-Managed Society
- Economics of Abundance
- Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements
- Economics of Blockchain
- Economics of Community
- Economics of Control
- Economics of Coworking
- Economics of Enough
- Economics of Happiness
- Economics of Land Degradation
- Economics of Monasticism
- Economics of Self-Managed Society
- Economics of Social Relations
- Economies of Integration
- Economies of Scale
- Economies of Scope
- Economism
- Economist Manfred Max Neef Interviewed by Democracy Now
- Economy 3.0
- Economy as a Service
- Economy as an Organism
- Economy For and Against Democracy
- Economy of Communion
- Economy of Contribution in the Digital Commons
- Economy of Crisis Capitalism and Ecology of the Commons
- Economy of Experiences
- Economy of God
- Economy of Meaning
- Economy of Recognition
- Econophysics
- Ecosystem Commons
- Ecovillage Economics
- ECSA on Alternative Market Pricing and Value Mechanisms
- Education Commodity Proposition
- Efficiency
- Eight Forms of Capital
- Ekila
- El Salvador's Bitcoin Policy
- Elinor Ostrom on Social Capital
- Elinor Ostrom on the Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems
- Ellen Brown Occupy LA Teach In on Money and Banking
- Ellen Brown on Public Banking
- Ellen Brown on Reforming the Financial System
- Ellen MacArthur on the Progress of the Circular Economy in the Netherlands
- Emergence of an Economy of Communion
- Emergence of Benefit-Driven Production
- Emerging Economy Wiki
- Emergy Theory
- Emily Kawano
- Empire of Capital
- Empirical Evidence for Cycles within Capitalism
- Employment as a Common Pool Resource
- Enclave Economies
- End of Artificial Scarcity
- End of Banking
- End of Finance
- End of the Market
- Energy Accounting
- Energy and the Wealth of Nations
- Energy Economics
- Energy Finance
- Energy Return on Investment, Peak Oil, and the End of Economic Growth
- Energy, Finance and the End of Growth
- Enoughness
- Enrico Grazzini
- Ephemeralization
- Ernst Schumacher
- Espaco Cubo
- ESRC Value and Values Symposium
- Essentials of Economic Sustainability
- Estimating the Development Cost of Open Source Software
- Ethical Accounting
- Ethical Economy
- Ethical Guide for Transforming Our Communities
- Ethical Poverty Line
- Eudaimonic Finance
- European Progressive Economists Network
- Evolution of the Modes of Exchange
- Evolution of the Structure of World History Through Modes of Exchange
- Evolutionary Economics
- Evonomics
- Examining the Relational Dimension of Resource Allocation
- Exchange Economies
- Exit from Capitalism has Already Begun
- Exploring the Social and Economic Dimensions of Mormon Zionic Culture
- Exponential Function
- Exponential Growth
- Expronceda/es
- Externalization of Costs
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- Failure of Capitalist Production
- Fair Use Economy
- Falling Rate of Profit
- Fatal Fallacies of Suicide Economics
- Federal Reserve
- Felix Stalder
- Feudal Origins of Capitalism
- Fiat Money
- Finance Innovation Lab
- Financial Autonomous Zone
- Financial Enclosure of the Commons
- Financial Permaculture
- Finiteness vs Scarcity
- Firms as Market-Free Zones
- First Five Thousand Years of Debt
- Fiscal Myth of Tax and Spend
- Five Framing Conditions for a Commons-Oriented Economy
- Fixing the Future through Local Living Economies
- Flawed Circuits of Value in the Lulz Economy
- Fordism
- Foreign Exchange Transaction Reporting System
- Foretelling the End of Capitalism
- Formalist vs Substantive Economics
- Forms of Economic Organization
- Foundational Economy
- Foundations for an Environmental Political Economy
- Foundations of a Love Economy
- Foundations of Gandhian Economics
- Four Basic Scenarios for the Future
- Four Futures
- Four Principles for a Just Transition to a Sustainable Economy
- Four Rules against the False Abundance of the Eternal Growth Economy
- Four Stages of Temporal-Spatial Organization in Human History
- Franco "Bifo" Berardi on the Bioeconomy and the Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism
- Free Market
- Free Software and the Local Economy
- Free Software Economics - WOS 2004
- Free Software for Development
- Free Trade
- Freelance Economy
- Freelance Surge Is the Industrial Revolution of Our Time
- Freeports
- Friedrich Hayek
- Friedrich List and the German School of Geo-Political Economy
- From an Economics of Power and Greed to an Economics of Compassion and the Common Good
- From Economism to Earth Systems Science
- From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies
- From the Basic Income to the Political Movement in Europe
- From the Monetary Production Economy to the Financial Production Economy
- Frédéric Lordon
- FT Coin
- Full Cost Accounting
- Full Reserve Banking
- Full Reserve Banking
- Full-Spectrum Economics
- Functional Finance
- Fundamental Human Needs
- Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution
- Fundamentals of an Economy in a Classless Society
- Future Money
- Future of Money
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- Gandhi's Economic Thought
- Gandhian Economics
- Gar Alperovitz on America Beyond Capitalism
- Gar Alperovitz on Reforming the Corporation for a New Economy
- Gar Alperovitz on the Next Economic Tranformation
- Gar Alperovitz on the Transition Strategies for the Next Economy
- Gary Flomenhoft
- Gasteiz en transición/es
- GDP Growth Is Against Life
- General Theory of Labour-Managed Market Economies
- General-Purpose Money vs Special-Purpose Money
- Generative Ownership